TROY >> The Second Street building housing Daisy Baker’s and Bacchus Wood Fired Pizza is now on the market and up for grabs.

The building and the two businesses it houses have seen a great deal of turmoil over the past several years.

The establishment at 33 Second St. is owned by SEFCU, which bid $650,000 for it at a foreclosure auction on March 13. As of March 17, SEFCU holds the building title. SEFCU was already the mortgage-holder, since bankrupt local developer Sandy Horowitz lost the building to foreclosure in 2008. Horowitz owed more than a million on the property. SEFCU’s chief marketing officer John DeCelle said it was unfortunate that the foreclosure process lasted so long, about six years.

SEFCU is now entertaining a variety of bids, DeCelle said. “There is a lot of activity,” he noted.

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As SEFCU reviews bids, the credit union continues to have potential buyers approaching and are open to more offers, DeCelle said.

“We should be able to sell it fairly quickly,” said President and CEO Michael Castellana just after the auction.

Castellana said after the mid-March auction that $650,000 was the absolute minimum they would consider in a disposition. “We think there’s an awful lot of value in that building,” he said.

“We really hope to bring it back to the grandeur it once had,” DeCelle said.

For whomever buys, two businesses currently remain inside the space. The upstairs business, Daisy Baker’s Fine Dining and Spirits, closed following kitchen damage following a pipe burst in December. It has not been fixed, and the business has been closed since. Downstairs, Bacchus Wood-Fired Pizza has been operating throughout the entire process.

There will not be another auction held, DeCelle said.

As for when the building will be changing hands, “We’re hoping to accomplish it as quickly as possible,” DeCelle said.